Assuming the equipment was also saved so you could still play the games, and every game in existence you don’t mention gets permanently destroyed, and no new games are ever to be made.
Inspired by a video by OutsideXbox from a few years ago, I thought it would be a fun idea to see what this community would choose. You can choose to be selfish and pick games you personally want to always play, or try to figure out what games would be best chosen for humanity to save for whatever reason. I’d also love to hear why you chose your games. Do they have a special meaning to you? I want to hear your stories.
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Minecraft (A comfortable home away from home).
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Wii Sports (The one video game literally made for everyone).
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Bioshock (I may not play it again myself, but everyone should experience “Would you kindly” at least once in their lives).
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PlayStation Dreams (This one is kinda like wishing for infinite wishes).
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Bomberman Ultra (A stupidly fun couch-play game that my entire family has played together for more than 10+ years now. I have never NOT smiled when booting up this silly game).
And then the games I’d forever regret not saving for myself: SuperGlob (Arcade), Tempest (Arcade), Uncharted 4, Bayonetta, StarCraft, Resident Evil 4, Portal and Heavy Rain (A brutal punch in the gut that I loved dearly but never want to play again).
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TitanFall 2: Its the Portal 2 engine, but better. Also runs on almost anything these days, looks good, could easily be a basis for a ton of different kind of multiplayer shooters via modding. You could basically rebuild any Source game/mod between 2000 and 2015 ish in it.
Deus Ex (the original): Lower fidelity but that means it can run on more things, is also highly moddable, also has a working multiplayer framework that it’s had since almost day one that I guess everyone forgot about, could also be modded into nearly anything, including lower fidelity than TF|2 multiplayer games of basically any kind.
VintageStory: Minecraft, but better. Also highly moddable. Also networkable.
Fallout Online (2/3): Assuming the likely near apocalyptic setting accompanying this hypothetical, we’re gonna want a 2.5D turn based tactics platform, FOnline is highly detailed and highly moddable, and is networked. You could also basically rebuild nearly any 2D JRPG in this, yes, even Pokemon, if you can handle 2.5D isometric sprites.
(I was originally going to say either Xenonauts 1 or 2, but then realized you could basically build X1 or X2 in Fallout Online, and FOnline is already networked.)
No Mans Sky: Beyond being essentially the most advanced procedural generation game that I am aware of, in breadth and depth, you’re going to want to have all that code to be able to decompile parts of it and thus be able to rebuild other or new digital worlds with it.
I reject the concept that no new games will ever be built.
I’ve been using and making mods since the 90s.
There will be new games, apocalypse be damned.
Also, as much as I love some Bethesda games, their engine is a heap of broken garbage.
Rebuild FONV or Skyrim in TF|2 or Deus Ex instead.
They are entirely capable of being modded into that.
- Chrono Trigger - It’s pretty much the perfect RPG: great story, cool art, replayable, not too long or grindy.
- Earthbound - I admit I have a lot of nostalgia for this one, but it’s still a game I’ve replayed at least a half-dozen times.
- Final Fantasy Tactics - Fantastic story, plenty of character customization, and some extremely broken builds if you know what you’re doing. Also, did I mention the story?
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - THE metroidvania. Great gameplay, soundtrack, and visuals.
- Hollow Knight - Fun to play, difficult to master. Has a lot of charm and plenty of secrets to discover.
There are plenty of other games I would love to throw on the list, but some would require a ton of mods or just didn’t quite make the cut for me.
I’m just saving Planescape: Torment 5 times.
Factorio. Not sure I’d need anything else
I really want to try it out but I’m worried it’ll ruin my life. It looks fun but I really don’t have a ton of time these days for gaming and I don’t want to get super hooked on a game I know I’ll spend way too much time on.
It is 3am, and after ~60 hours over the last two weeks I have launched my first rocket and gotten the game complete screen. I smile and slowly blink dry, crusty, tired eyes. Finally, I can rest. I have to be to the airport in four hours.
I recently started it with the caveat that I’m not allowed to pay without my brother. So he comes by once or twice per month and we go crazy for a few hours.
If I did it myself I’d lose my job.
I think you may have made a typo of “pay” instead of “play” :) Either that or I’m mistaken about what kinda game factorio is…
Oops!
Hope you have a lovely day! ☺️
Yeah watch out for this one then. Especially if you get into the mods that turn a 30-50 hour campaign into 500+ hours with 20x more complexity.
Currently 6 months into a full pyanodons run. I hope to complete it within 2000 hours.
That’s insane. I’ve beaten Bob’s+Angel’s (with a limp to the finish line) in 123 hours. There are many hundred items and thousands of total recipes, many with byproducts in B+A. How is Pyanodons that much longer?
I’ve done about 6 or 7 bobs and angels runs (all mods) over the years. It’s elementary school compared to pyanodons.
It’s that much longer due to the complexity and depth of the supply chains. And there is very often many different ways to make the same thing, all with different byproducts to deal with.
6 or 7 runs of Bob’s and Angel’s? That’s crazy, why did you play it so many times? I gotta get back to attempting to build a mega base in my save :)
Oh the why is probably autism. I enjoy complex simulations. At the time I thought angels and bobs was the most complex. Actually it often wasn’t enough for me and I’d include some other overhaul mods like yuokai at the same time.
I’ve also been playing since before factorio was on steam, so my plays are spread out
I couldn’t get past the browness of the graphics. Satisfactory on the other hand…
- Factorio - The best logistics game never made
- SimCity 4 - The best city building game ever made
- Mass Effect 2 - The best space RPG ever made
- MGS2 - My favorite Hideo Kojima game
- Tactics Ogre any version - The best tactics game ever made.
If mods are allowed, the first 2 are truly endless games. ME2 is super replayable. MGS2 gives me a shooter with a fun story. Tactics Ogre is seriously the best tactics game ever made. It puts FFT to bed pretty easily.
For me I’d say…
Borderlands 2 Left4Dead 2 Destiny 2 Zombies Ate my Neighbours (SNES) Pokémon (ZA has me at the moment but I’d say keep Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire)
CO-OP shooters with single player elements are what I’d play more than anything else to avoid it being the same thing over and over, Destiny has hit hard times recently but still has a lot to give.
ZAMN is just cool.
I can lose hours shiny hunting and mucking about in the Pokémon games so easily has to be one around.
I didn’t expect to see ZAMN here lol, it’s a great game though
I’ll start the ball rolling. For me, I’d probably have to go with:
Skyrim - first off, it’s my most played game ever, and also my most purchased game too. Is it the best game ever made? No, I don’t even think it’s the best Elder Scrolls game. But there’s something so captivating about it for some reason and I can’t help but always go back to replay it all these years later. If mods are allowed to survive the video game apocalypse then it makes it a very easy choice but I’d still choose it even if it had to stay vanilla.
Pokemon Soul Silver - something for kids to play, but also my favourite Pokemon game and one of my most replayed games ever. Between having your Pokemon follow you around, the Johto region plus Kanto, and also the music, I think it’s the best Pokemon game ever made, and a game I can’t go without playing the rest of my life.
Elden Ring - I was torn between this or Dark Souls III, but I went with ER because (1) it’s more accessible, and again remember every other game is permanently destroyed so this does affect everyone, and I’d like to be at least a little nice in my choices, and (2) I find myself able to replay it a bit more, especially with the DLC. I’ve mentioned it many times before but I truly believe SotE is the best content FromSoft has ever put out, so it would be a shame to have it destroyed.
Hitman: World of Assassination - it’s sort of cheating as this was originally three separate games, but they’re all bundled together now and Steam recognizes it all as a single game in my library, so I’m including it. Plus it’s my list and my post so I say it counts. Anyway, I don’t see Hitman posted a lot on Lemmy, but it’s my second most played game ever and I really do think if you can get over the admittedly high cost to get all the content it really is a masterpiece of a game. It’s also got way more replayability than you’d initially think just looking at it, so it’s a great contender for this post. This is another Skyrim situation where I don’t think it’s a top pick for greatest game of all time but it’s just so easy to replay that I couldn’t omit it from here.
Dishonored - I really didn’t know what to put for my last choice. I was tempted to do another massive open world game like Red Dead Redemption 2 or cheat again and do another bundle game like Mass Effect Legendary Edition or Halo Master Chief Collection, but I decided to go with a game that is a bit less intensive to complete but is still really fun to jump back into and try a new style with. I feel like it’s a bit of an underrated game these days. I know it was very well received and sold well but I don’t hear about it enough when talking about modern-ish classics. This is probably my favourite game that’s not a sandbox or open world, aside from the FromSoft games. The art style is gorgeous, the story is engaging, the DLC is a great add-on, the gameplay is diverse and super fun, it’s just such a great game all around.
My list is probably going to be very different from everyone else’s, but that’s part of the fun.
People should check out the 1 upsmanship podcast where a couple guys discuss which games are worthy of being uploaded to a “celestial hard drive” for preservation. It went patreon exclusive a couple years ago but there are still a lot of eps posted
- Half-life 2 (Garry’s mod)
- Quake 2 (plenty of mods)
- Desert Bus (Penn and teller’s smoke and mirrors)
- Luanti (Open source Minecraft)
- Turtle WoW (So I can quest in vanilla’ish)
It’s crazy that there’s still nothing that comes close to Garry’s Mod.
Dota 2.
Mandatory for every gamer.
That can only end up great.
Okay there Satan, want to start world war 3 do we?
MOBAs have an ability to draw out my rage like nothing else 😄
I swear I would punch one of my best friends if he was in the same room with me when we played together.
All he had to do was the bare minimum, and he still fucked up while acting like he doesn’t care. Made me furious.
Nah just destroy them all, maybe I can get my friends to learn Bridge with me. If not, Canasta will suffice.
Minecraft
Terraria
The game i am working on that will definitely release
Maybe celeste?
Maybe vivid/stasis? I play like 6 games in totalHalf-Life 2
Halo CE (MCC version I guess)
F.E.A.R. + Extraction Point DLC (Perseus Mandate and F.E.A.R 2/3 were dogshit)
Metro 2033 (Redux I guess since that’s the only way I can get good HDR)
SOMA
I think collections are cheating and that this list doesn’t cheat hard enough
Nintendo has to have released a classic Mario collection right?
What do you mean collections? Are you talking about the MCC? I was saying that I would save JUST Halo CE but that likely it would have to be the MCC version, but my answer is simply “Halo CE” regardless of if its part of a bundle. Just Halo CE. Ignore the MCC part.
The Kingdom of Loathing it’s funny, it’s free by you get great stuff when you donate, the writing is great and it’s balanced as hell.
Thief the Dark Project, because I like it even though it’s old.
Bioshock, because it’s the best “game as art” example out there
Gary’s Mod for shitposting
And even though I’m not that into Minecraft, I’ll pick that one because you can make video games on it with Redstone so pretty sure that’s a loophole to make Doom or whatever
